Description
In the middle of the 20th century, America pondered its future - and looked to the skies. Based on Tom Wolfe's book, The Right Stuff is the tale of how that future began, a thrilling epic of intrepid test pilot Chuck Yeager and the seven pioneering astronauts of the Project Mercury space program.
Philip Kaufman scripts and directs, pushing the envelope with a filmmaking bravado that matches this soaring story of training and heroism. and of sudden fame for which there is no training.
Ed Harris,
Barbara Hershey,
Sam Shepard,
Dennis Quaid and
Fred Ward are among the perfect cast of this winner of 4 Academy Awards that in a pristine 20th-anniversary digital transfer remains the stuff of must-see entertainment. Let's light this candle, flyboys!
Details
Released: Wed 6 Aug 2003
Catalogue Number: DVS24499
Rating: 
Region: 4 - Suitable for Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, South America, Central America, Pacific Islands and Caribbean
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- Actors: Veronica Cartwright, Charles Frank, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Lance Henriksen, Barbara Hershey, Scott Paulin, Dennis Quaid, Pamela Reed, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley, Fred Ward
- Director: Philip Kaufman
- Distributor: Warner Home Video
- Studio: The Ladd Company
- Feature:
- Main Menu Audio
- Awards
- Featurette: Scene-Specific Audio Commentaries - Cast/Filmmakers
- Featurette: Realizing The Right Stuff (21:06)
- Featurette: T-20 Years and Counting (11:29)
- Featurette: The Real Men with The Right Stuff (15:31)
- Deleted Scenes: (10:55)
- Featurette: Interactive Timeline To Space (14)
- Featurette: John Glenn: American Hero (86:36)
- Theatrical Trailer: 1.85:1, 16x9 enhanced, Dolby Digital 2.0 (3:24)
- Audio:
- English Dolby Digital 5.1
- French Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles: English, Arabic, English for the Hearing Impaired, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Bulgarian, Romanian
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
- Discs: 2
- Format: PAL
- Layers: 2
- Release Year: 1983
- Running Time: 185 minutes
- Sides: 1
- Transfer Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Availability
Estimated despatch 5-10 days after ordering.
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